Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!claris!drc
From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LaserWriter II SC memory question
Message-ID: <8423@claris.com>
Date: 24 Jan 89 16:04:47 GMT
References: <736@ethz.UUCP> <465@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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In article <465@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres) writes:
>The SC has socketed memory to allow for possible future development.  With
>present firmware/software, however, it has no way of using more memory.  I'm
>not familiar with details of the hardware design, so I'm not sure what would
>happen with 1 Meg parts, but I am sure that there would be no enhancement.
>
>The NTX is capable of using more memory than it is shipped with; I'm not
>sure how you go about it.
>
I don't like to disagree with someone from Apple about one of their products,
but I have both an SC and an NTX and can state that the SC memory is on SIMMs,
not socketed (at least on the SC board that I own -- one of the early ones).
You add more memory to an NTX by adding SIMMs.  There are three banks of
four SIMMs possible.  It comes standard with the first two banks filled with
256KB parts for a total of 2MB and the third bank empty.  Populating the
board with SIMMs is analogous to populating a Mac II board.  Like parts in
groups of four.  The maximum possible at the moment is 12MB.

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!